Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-07

lsl4. ~ QtN Tue DO4 Sc NOuiu DdCk MS
ears 1e would run on in the road ahead
aud taen stop FOR ight again. The crack
oi the whip and tue shouts of the driver
med 10 have no effect. Finally in bis
efforts 10 run aud butt at the same time
b. fell down, ard the wheel OF the buggy
ran over hlm ana broke MS neck. The
sheep never licked. Was it suicide, muir
der or juStinable Oyicide?
A. El5erton Friday evening, when
Sheriff Alexander went to the jail to take
supper To the county bOarders, he found.
g. his astoaishment, that one of them,
Dock OKlesby (coiored) VINO plead
guilty 70 cattle stealing as misdemeanOr
a the last term OF court. W as dead. There
/ were TWO other prisoners in the jail a
the time, but neither OF them knew OF tie
! poor fellows last struggle. He mad Deen
ilt and had received the attentions OF a
I very competent and skillful physician,
but neither the doctor nor anyone else
| was expecting his death, and so sudden
| as II that II was deemed a case for The
| Coroner and jury was accordingly i'm
paneled which returned verdict TO the
effect that ne came TO mis- death from
heart disease.
sunday tue Associated Press contained
! a teiegraphio account of the killing OF
! Rowland z. GOwdy, of Atlanta, near
Jersey City, BY train. The telegram
caused very little talk in Atlanta be-
! cause GOwdy was almost entirely I'M
! known. Only one family BY the name
was known 10 the city, and at first il
was presumed that the All man be-
! Ionged to that family. Such, however,
/ appears to be incorrect. Last summer
an Il. p. Gowdy was honorably dis
/ CHARGED from The United state. army
/ and spent the summer and winter Ia
, Atlanta. h. lelJ the city about two
! months ago, ADD since then nothing has
/ Teen heard from him.. 1t is now believed
/ BY those " 40 knew GOwdy that he Is the
man - no was killed.
As an earnest OF the boom which has
! struck Rome, the following new enter
| pr-es, with capital stOcS running from
$4,000 up to $500, 900, have been organ
/ ized within the last lew days: The Rome
marble works, the Egyptian marble
works, furniture manufacturing COM
/ panv, trunk Manufacturing COMPANY,
tue Excelsior Manufacturing Company,
soap manu- acturIng company, a wood
ware and broom com ANY, a wagon fac
( tory, brick manutac turing company,
a new foundry and machine shops. Be-
sides these enterprises now under way, a
large rolling m il company in a Western
city. employ ing 300 hands, will remove
It's plant TO Rome. The organization Of
the BIZ City Land Company Is one of the
features OF the week.
Luther Hester, a negro who keeps a
grocery store at Atlanta, shot Charlie
Blalock, alas Charley King, in the neck
I saturday MINT al the store. The wound
! Inflicted is considered quite serious and
NAV terminate fatally. Hester Is young
negro and has many friends among the
| whites. He is hard working economical
/ negro ana has gathered together little
property. About 8 O'Clock Saturday
/ night, while Hester was IN his store at
| work, Blaluck. VINO is said to be a des-
! perate, reck ess negro, entered, and after
! puI CHASING a cigar began swearing and
slashing around. Hester asked the negro
to leave, but This only infatuated him aud
! ne hGally shot him, as he claims, IN SELF
| defense. The ball entered Blalock's neck
on the left side below the ear and ranged
down.
Monday night novel game was PLAYED
On Conductor Harris, OF tne down fast
| Georgia railroad train. When the train
stopped at Union Point Capt. Harris
ooticed TWO negro women get aboard,
and one OF them was dressed In a loose
mother hubbard. When he went through
he car he Jailed TO find but one of the
women, and upon questioning the negro
-he said That somebody bad sna ched the
other girls ticket away and sue had to
let OIL. The captain did not su pect any,
ming wrong, but when the train reached
Barnett the missing woman came from
unOer the mother hubbard OF her COM
panlOn aud got off unnOticed by the con-
ductOr, but to the amusement of the
other passengers, VINO saw her when she
made good her exit from under the ex-
pressly loose made dress.
Nj. Fl. Gray, citizen OF Fannin coun.
ty, was killed sunday afternoon at State
Line, three miles aOove Blue Ridge, in
Fannin county, by j. I. Prince. The
parties are both well known, Prince be-
ing balllH Gray was having some
words with negro who worked for
Prince. Prince came up and tried to
stop the difficulty. Gray thought Prince
wanted to arrest him aud began cursIng
MIN. Prince told him to stop or he would
shoot him. Gray continued to curse and
picked up a rock to throw. Then Prince
began 10 shoot. The first snot went
through Gray's coat. The second shot
hit him in The left eye, killing him IN
stsntly. After firing the second shot
Prince turned and fled aud is still at
large. An inquest was held. Tue yer.
dict was that "the deceased came to his
death by pistol ball fired from a pistol
ia the hands of John Prince, and that it
was case OF murder. A reward OF $20J
Is offered by John Dray, of Blue Ridge,
for his apprehension and delivery.
At Macon Monday morning about IL
O'clock Patrolman Fennell was walking
his beat on Cherry street, when he came
across Crawford county man named
DAVID Begham, who was cursing and
swearing in an obstreperous manner as
ne sat in his wagon. A lady in a buggy
vac trying to get him TO move out OF the
way, but he only responded with curses
and wicked language. "StOp cursing and
move on" said the officer. 81 will curse
as long as | - please" replied
the belligerent man. "Well. you must
stop" SAID the officer, and stepping tor.
ward he collared tue man, and at the same
momen MT Begham drew a pistol and pulled
the trigger. just at that critical mo
ment Patrolman Tom Brown grabbed
Begham's naud, and the hammer OF the
pistol caught MIN on the hand between
the thumb and forehnger. David Middle
brooks, friend of Begham's, ran up and
TOOK hand, and general struggle be-
gan, Begham crying out: Ppm a despera-
dol Don't you know am, Tom Brown"
Both the men were snon overpowered and
carried 10 the barracks, where they were
locked up and three charles entered
AGAINST them of drunk and disorderlv
and resisting an officer. Both the men
are farmers, and the whole trouble is
chargeable TO the tact that Begham was
intoxicated.
Buchanan Banner: Mr.. Wyatt Williams
was tried for lunacy last Tuesday morn
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